Now the cleanup starts – emptying the fridge & freezer, buying more food, recabling the home office after I ripped out the UPS’s to power our phones, etc.

I won’t blog detailed info about Ike because we were among the lucky ones.  I think I’m the first person I know to have all of the amenities back.  Any words I say here would detract from the people who have it really rough.  We spent yesterday helping Erika’s parents clean out fallen trees from their yard, and at one point had a fallen power line light up the festivities.

We had it really easy, and it still sucked.  Enough said.

I’ll be back on the job tomorrow at the Caroline Collective.  I’ve got an AT&T wireless card, and they’ve got power, and I’ll see if I can cobble up some kind of internet sharing with it.

Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody who still doesn’t have the basics, and who lost their homes.  I don’t even want to think about the real death toll yet – there’s plenty of rumblings on Twitter about floating bodies in Bolivar.

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We’re fine.  Our apartment building is thick concrete and our windows face a side street with minimal exposure.  We haven’t had any water leaks at all.

I feel so bad for the rest of Houston, though.  Tonight’s winds were something else, pretty darned loud, and I’ve heard from a few of my Twitter peeps (the ones who still have power) that they’re having roof problems.

We’ll stick around through Sunday, but if we don’t get power back by then, we’ll hit the road north to check into a hotel.

Best wishes and prayers to everybody who got socked by this thing.

I’ll be updating my Twitter feed with news.

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Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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Tropical Storm Edaeiou(and sometimes y)rdo is heading right for Houston tomorrow.  Both Ed and I have conflicting reservations at the Houston airport tomorrow, and I have the feeling he’s going to win.

I’m worried about the effects of this storm.  My spell checker is already screaming in agony.  Sean Stoner suggested that this name was probably sitting on the shelf for years, and the hurricane planners pulled it off the shelf when they saw it was only going to be a short storm, figuring they’d lessen the damage.

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Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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Hurricane rations, originally uploaded by BrentOzar.

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Upcoming free webcasts: SQL and SSDs: A Valentine's Day Love Story and Anatomy of the SQL Server Log File.

Brent Ozar

Brent specializes in performance tuning for SQL Server, VMware, and storage. He's one of the very few Microsoft Certified Masters of SQL Server, a published author, and a Microsoft MVP. He likes travel, Jeeps, Apple gear, jokes, and writing about himself in the third person. Read more and contact Brent.

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